Schar School of Policy and Governmenthttp://hdl.handle.net/1920/262
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:31:03 GMT2018-03-19T13:31:03ZPolice Departments and Crime Status in Virginia Communities: An Assessment from the Citizen Perspectivehttp://hdl.handle.net/1920/10887
Police Departments and Crime Status in Virginia Communities: An Assessment from the Citizen Perspective
Manheim, Frank T.; Bullock, Tim; Scott, Jahtanya S.
This report presents the first extensive assessment of crime status and police performance for communities in Virginia. Twenty-four counties and 29 cities were studied for the period 2015 and 2016. Performance was rated from a citizen, rather than a professional law enforcement perspective. Special attention was given to African American communities. The assessment utilized publicly accessible data sources including demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau, police department web sites, FBI UCR crime statistics, media reports, and other data.
We conclude that community history and characteristics, along with police performance, are major influences on local crime rates. This is a preliminary report, pending transfer of data to relational database format, which is expected to facilitate more extensive data comparisons.
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/1920/108872018-02-01T00:00:00ZProper Methodology and Methods of Collecting and Analyzing Slavery Data: An Examination of the Global Slavery Indexhttp://hdl.handle.net/1920/9895
Proper Methodology and Methods of Collecting and Analyzing Slavery Data: An Examination of the Global Slavery Index
Guth, Andrew; Anderson, Robyn; Kinnard, Kasey; Tran, Hang
The Global Slavery Index aims to, among other objectives, recognize the forms, size, and scope of slavery worldwide as well as the strengths and weaknesses of individual countries. An analysis of the Index’s methods exposes significant and critical weaknesses and raises questions into its replicability and validity. The Index may prove more valuable in the future if proper methods are implemented, but the longer improper methods are used the more damage is done to the public policy debate on slavery by advancing data and policy that is not based on sound methodology. To implement proper methods, a committee of sophisticated methodologists needs to develop measurement tools and constantly analyze and refine these methods over the years as data is collected.
Mon, 17 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/1920/98952014-11-17T00:00:00ZMigration Studies at a Crossroads: A Critique of Immigration Regime Typologieshttp://hdl.handle.net/1920/9243
Migration Studies at a Crossroads: A Critique of Immigration Regime Typologies
Boucher, Anna; Gest, Justin
International migration and its scientific examination have reached a crossroads. Today,
migrants are pursuing opportunities in new destination societies with growing economies and different forms of governance from democratic states—transformations that complicate established understandings about national immigration models and their evolution. In light of these transformations, this article reviews the field of migration studies and its sketching of immigration patterns in the contemporary period. It critically examines existing systems of classification in a way that creates space for revised approaches. In doing so, this article identifies three key limitations with existing approaches. First, existing classifications largely focus on Western states, and especially traditional destination countries. Second, existing classifications are weakened by unclear or poorly defined indicators. Finally, even those classifications with improved indicators are hindered by approaches that examine admission and citizenship/settlement regimes independently of each other, ignoring a possible migration integration policy nexus.
The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in Migration Studies, 2014. doi:10.1093/migration/mnu035.
Supplementary data is available through the publisher.
Fri, 22 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/1920/92432014-08-22T00:00:00ZMeasuring and Comparing Immigration, Asylum and Naturalization Policies Across Countries: Challenges and Solutionshttp://hdl.handle.net/1920/9123
Measuring and Comparing Immigration, Asylum and Naturalization Policies Across Countries: Challenges and Solutions
Gest, Justin; Boucher, Anna; Challen, Suzanna; Burgoon, Brian; Thielemann, Eiko; Beine, Michel; McGovern, Patrick; Crock, Mary; Rapoport, Hillel; Hiscox, Michael
Academics and policy makers require a better understanding of the variation of
policies that regulate global migration, asylum and immigrant naturalization. At present,
however, there is no comprehensive cross-national, time-series database of such policies,
rendering the analysis of policy trends across and within these areas difficult at best. Several
new immigration databases and indices have been developed in recent years. However, there is no consensus on how best to conceptualize, measure and aggregate migration policy
indicators to allow for meaningful comparisons through time and across space. This article
discusses these methodological challenges and introduces practical solutions that involve
historical, multi-dimensional, disaggregated and transparent conceptualizing, measuring and
compiling of cross-national immigration policies. Such an approach informs the International
Migration Policy and Law Analysis (IMPALA) database.
This is the pre-peer-reviewed version of the following article: Gest, J., Boucher, A., Challen, S., Burgoon, B., Thielemann, E., Beine, M., McGovern, P., Crock, M., Rapoport, H. and Hiscox, M. (2014), Measuring and Comparing Immigration, Asylum and Naturalization Policies Across Countries: Challenges and Solutions. Global Policy, 5: 261–274. doi: 10.1111/1758-5899.12132 which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1758-5899.12132/full.
Mon, 12 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/1920/91232014-05-12T00:00:00Z